On 13:51 Mon 30 May , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 05/27/2011 04:45 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 15:39 Thu 26 May , Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> This patch changes the glibj.zip packaging so that META-INF/INDEX.LIST is
> >> generated to the file. This is needed for VMClassLoader.getBootPackages()
> >> to
> >> work correctly:
> >>
> >> private static String[] getBootPackages()
> >> {
> >> URL indexList = getResource("META-INF/INDEX.LIST");
> >> if (indexList != null)
> >> {
> >>
> >> NOTE! This problem is only seen with Jato currently as it's the only VM I'm
> >> aware of that doesn't override any of the classes in vm/reference. CACAO
> >> and
> >> JamVM override the whole classloading parts themselves.
> >>
> >> I asked about this on IRC and Mark Wielaard explained background on the
> >> issue:
> >>
> >> < mjw> 2006-04-19 Olivier Jolly <olivier.jo...@pcedev.com>
> >> < mjw> * vm/reference/java/lang/VMClassLoader.java (getBootPackages):
> >> Loads
> >> < mjw> boot packages list from the META-INF/INDEX.LIST file if it
> >> exists.
> >> < mjw>
> >> http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2006-April/001704.html
> >> < mjw> "the patch to support the -i option should be incorporated soon
> >> and we'll be able to add the creation of the index to the glibj.zip by
> >> default."
> >> < mjw> soon just happens the be > 5 years...
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
> >> ---
> >> lib/Makefile.am | 2 +-
> >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
> >> index 8104ee7..50d1baa 100644
> >> --- a/lib/Makefile.am
> >> +++ b/lib/Makefile.am
> >> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ glibj.zip:
> >> else
> >>
> >> if WITH_JAR
> >> -CREATE_GLIBJ_ZIP=$(JAR) cf glibj.zip gnu java javax org sun META-INF
> >> +CREATE_GLIBJ_ZIP=$(JAR) cf glibj.zip gnu java javax org sun META-INF &&
> >> $(JAR) i glibj.zip
> >> else
> >> CREATE_GLIBJ_ZIP=$(ZIP) -r -D glibj.zip gnu java javax org sun META-INF >
> >> /dev/null
> >> endif
> >> --
> >> 1.7.4.1
> >>
> >>
> >
> > My only concern with the patch (as I think Mark also raised on IRC) is that
> > it means
> > the index is only generated if WITH_JAR is set and not if $(ZIP) is used.
> >
> > Should we just drop the $(ZIP) option and require jar to be available? I
> > suspect
> > the reason we haven't done this is a bootstrapping issue.
>
> That's right.
>
> Is there some reason that zip can't generate the index? I thought it was
> just another file.
>
Well, zip can't but I guess we could.
> Andrew.
>
>
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